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II- The 1950s: from missed opportunities to the Suez Crisis A- The aftermath of the War of Independence: between hopes and turmoil B- The Suez Crisis Oct. 30 th - Nov. 7 th 1956: Arab-Israeli war, decolonization war, or proxy to the Cold War? C upheavals and the US-USSR reassessment of the Middle East

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Refugees settled in camps in neighboring countries

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King Adbullah of Jordan assassinated: July 1951

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Nasser and the Free Officers

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The Baghdad Pact: a Middle Eastern version of NATO

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Nasser’s provocations: rapprochement with the USSR

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The Sinai Campaign, Oct. 30 th – Nov. 7 th 1956

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III- The 1960s: from missed opportunities to the Six-Day War A- The “Arab Cold War”: inter-Arab rivalries B- The road to war: the Jordan waters dispute, the Fedayeen’s raids and the Israeli retaliations C- The Six-Day War and its aftermath

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Main weapons in the 1960s in the Arab-Israeli conflict: French Mirage and Soviet MiG

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1963: the Cairo conference 1964: the PLO is created

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Prime Minster Levy Eshkol after he resigned from the Defense Ministry, with his replacement Moshe Dayan

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The Six-Day War: surprise attack and conquest of the Sinai June 5 th -8 th

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The Six-Day War: the Jordanian front, June 5 th to 7 th

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The Six-Day War: the Syrian front, June 9 th to 10 th

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The Khartoum Arab summit, Sept. 1967: the 3 NOs

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IV- The October War and the Israeli Egyptian Peace Treaty A- The War of Attrition B- The emergence of a Palestinian resistance: Black September, 1970 C- The surprise attack of October 1973 and its aftermath: the Camp David accords, 1979